Quotes About Old Fashioned Values

#1. We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

William J. Clinton

#2. Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Emily Post

#3. To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Matthew Henry

#4. We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

Michael Bloomberg

#5. Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

Andy Serkis

#6. I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Imelda May

#7. My father was an old - fashioned bloke, and he actually told me one day, "I'm not your friend, I'm your father. My job is to bring you up, give you values for life and to ensure that you carry those values through."

Warren Mundine

#8. What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

Tom Hodgkinson

#9. Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

Louis Untermeyer

#10. Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness?

J.M. Coetzee

#11. You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.

Wolf Blitzer

#12. The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.

Meg Ryan

#13. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Gautama Buddha

#14. There's no such thing as old-fashioned values. There are just values. Right has always been right and wrong has always been wrong...People have just lost sight of what's truly important.

J.M. Hill

#15. This is me. Take it or leave it.

Melanie Chisholm

#16. I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.

Ian Watson

#17. I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.

Barbara Mikulski

#18. I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

Rosa Salazar

#19. And I don't get waves of missing you anymore, they're more like tsunami tides in my eyes

Ed Sheeran

#20. Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories, when life was simple. It's those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.

Lindsay Fox

#21. A traditionalist's values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

Fennel Hudson

#22. The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

Jim Lee

#23. Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

David Crystal

#24. You're everything.

Maggi Myers

#25. Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.

Fennel Hudson

#26. It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

Ringo Starr

#27. I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Madonna Ciccone

#28. In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!

Charles Camarda

#29. There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.

Rashida Jones